"The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Regional Office for Central Asia hereby invites qualified contractors to submit their Expression of Interest for provision of conference management services for 48 participatns at 4-5 star hotel including venue, accommodation, and transportation services in Almaty (suburbia) and Almaty region, Kazakhstan on 24-28 July 2017.

Please note that this is not an invitation for submission of a proposal. This is a request for Expressions of Interest (EOI) in order to identify qualified vendors interested in participating in the solicitation.

Interested vendors must provide the completed Vendor Response Form (attached below). UNODC ROCA will examine this EOI and reserves the right to select the invitees for competitive bidding. Accordingly, an expression of interest does not automatically warrant an interested vendor's participation in the competitive bidding exercise.

UNODC ROCA reserves the right to change or cancel any of this requirement at any time during the EOI and/or solicitation process.

PLEASE NOTE: In order to do business with UN, vendors must be registered as possible suppliers on United Nations Global Marketplace (UNGM, www.ungm.org) and indicate vendor's UNGM number on the mentioned Vendor Response Form. Please, see the attached guideline for instructions how to register on UNGM.

DEADLINE: Please, kindly, complete registration on UNGM and submit your Expression of Interest to the email: bids.uz@unodc.org, not later than by 04 May 2017QUESTIONS: in case of questions as per the registration process on UNGM and submission of Expression of interest, please, kindly contact Ms. Saule Issabekova, email: saule.issabekova@unodc.org. Tel.: (+77172) 69 65 62".